At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 518: A Different Kind of Romance
On the 15th day of the sixth month in the twenty-third year of the Han calendar, Yinzhou continent, the starting port.

This is an extremely primitive port city. Most of the buildings in the city are supported by thick logs, with thatched roofs and palm trees. The pillars are not even cleaned of bark, which is full of primitive atmosphere. Outside the city is a plate-cast city wall, which looks a bit dilapidated. On the side of the city close to the sea is a pier, its main structure is paved with logs and planks, and a small part is made of bricks.

This is the place where Liu Bi and his team landed in Yinzhou. In order to repair their ships, they hired local natives. They built a small amount of infrastructure to facilitate their ship repairs. This wharf was the original infrastructure. After Liu Bi and his team left, the place where they built the wharf became a small city of several thousand people.

At this time, Liu Yun, the owner of the city, was standing on the dock and looking at the deep sea in the distance, but he saw nothing except endless waves and a few seagulls.

"Liu Bi, damn it, you said you would come to pick me up in a year, but now three years have passed and there is no ship. It's been three years. Do you know how I have been spending these three years? After being a savage for three years, did you return to the Han Dynasty, or did you drown when your ship capsized in a storm? If you are dead, send me a dream." Liu Yun kept venting his anger at the dock.

He was a member of Liu Bi's fleet. Just when the fleet was about to set off, Liu Yun fell seriously ill. It was unknown whether he could survive under the circumstances at the time, so it was naturally impossible to bring him on board the fleet, not to mention bringing a patient on board, which was an extremely risky thing.

Liu Bi could only let Liu Yun recuperate in Yinzhou, and left him a thought, telling him that as long as he, Liu Bi, was not dead, he would bring a fleet to pick him up and bring him back to the Han Dynasty at this time next year.

Liu Bizi's words were just comforting. At that time, he estimated that Liu Yun would not live for more than a few days. But Liu Yun unexpectedly held on and his health improved rapidly.

Then he stayed in this fishing village, waiting for the Han fleet to return. He almost became like a husband-waiting stone.

He was extremely disappointed in the first year, but he still had hope in his heart. In the second year, he had not seen the Han fleet yet, and he was a little desperate. He wondered every day whether the North Sea expedition team was wiped out or Liu Bi had forgotten him. Now it was the third year, and he was only filled with anger, resentful of why Liu Bi had left him alone in this wild world.

Just after Liu Yun vented his anger, he was about to go home, but he found several black spots where the sea and the sky met. Soon the black spots became bigger and bigger, and he could finally see clearly that it was a big sailing ship.

"I'm here! I'm here!" Liu Yun cheered wildly and even rushed directly into the deep sea. There was no doubt that only the Han Dynasty could have such a large sea and river.

When the Mayan tribesmen around saw this scene, they jumped into the sea in shock and pulled their leader back.

Although their chief often went crazy and roared at the sea, he was a capable god who could easily create salt from the sea water and taught them to make tools like wheelbarrows. With these two specialties, they sold salt and wheelbarrows to various Mayan city-states. They became the richest tribe in the entire Maya. Everyone depended on the chief for food, so they naturally did not dare to let him suffer any losses.

Many Maya tribesmen saw the huge fleet on the sea. This was the fleet of the gods a few years ago. Three years ago, the fleet of the gods docked here. It caused a huge sensation in the entire Maya. At that time, the surrounding tribes received a lot of good things from the gods. Everyone lived a prosperous life for a long time. Many tribesmen knelt down and prayed in the direction of the sea, hoping that the fleet of the gods would come again and bring them a good life.

Half a day later, the fleet approached the dock, the anchor was dropped, and soldiers disembarked one by one to begin securing the ship.

Liu Yun rushed forward and said, "I am Liu Yun, the commander of the North Sea Exploration Group. Which fleet are you from?"

"North Sea Expedition Team? Didn't Wangyuan Hou and the others return to the Han Dynasty?" the soldier asked curiously.

"Liu Bi and his team have returned to the Han Dynasty!" Liu Yun was excited and a little angry. Liu Bi was indeed alive and seemed to have been awarded a title of nobility for his merits, which meant that their trip around the world was successful. However, he had suffered for three years in the wilderness, and this honor did not belong to him. For a moment, he felt mixed emotions.

Then he explained: "I got seriously ill that year and had to stay here. I was told that you would come to pick me up in a year, but I ended up waiting here for three years before you all came."

The soldier immediately looked at Liu Yun respectfully and said, "So you are the heroes of the North Sea Expedition Team. Marquis Wangyuan and his men have returned to the Han Dynasty. They were commended by the court and were given the title of Marquis Yuanwang. The emperor named this new continent Yinzhou. The local indigenous people are all the descendants of the Shang Dynasty. They are also the bloodline of our Han Dynasty. Now they have recognized their ancestors. At the same time, the court established the Yinzhou Governor's Office, and we are the soldiers of the Governor's Office."

The soldier immediately reported Liu Yun's situation.

After Xu Aimin knew Liu Yun's story, he immediately got off the boat and said to him, "Captain Liu, you have worked hard. I will report your achievements to the emperor. We will reward those who have made contributions and punish those who have made mistakes. Your achievements will not be overlooked. Now my Beiyinzhou Governor's Office has just arrived in the New World and needs a guide. I wonder if Captain Liu Yun is willing to serve under me."

At this time, Liu Yun also knew that the governor of Northern Yinzhou in front of him was the eldest son of the current emperor, and very likely the future emperor of the Han Dynasty. He immediately saluted excitedly and said, "I am willing to serve the governor."

"This city was originally built by Commandant Liu to repair ships and recruit some barbarians as laborers. In the past three years, I have recruited some local barbarians and built the city wall to reach its current size. This city can be a temporary residence for the Governor's Office.

Xu Aimin said happily: "I will appoint Captain Liu as the military officer of the Military Governor's Office. From now on, we will all be one of our own."

Then the original City Lord's Mansion became the Governor's Mansion of Northern Yinzhou. The soldiers performed their duties and were busy unloading the goods. Under the leadership of the Han soldiers, the migrated people began to build warehouses and unload all the goods from the fleet. Everyone was busy until the evening before they had some free time.

Everyone in the Governor's Office asked Liu Yun curiously about his situation, and Liu Yun told everyone about his experiences over the past three years.

Overall, Liu Yun was doing well in the New World. After he recovered, while waiting for the fleet, he was also trying to improve his life. He built a salt field next to the city and taught the local natives to make wheelbarrows and two-wheeled carts.

Relying on these two specialties, Liu Yun gained a lot of wealth in Maya, so a large number of Mayans followed him. The starting city, which originally had only a few hundred people, expanded its population to several thousand people, and a city wall was built. It was considered a large city in this area.

With a city and money, and the fact that Liu Yun was a god, he was considered a diamond bachelor in the Mayan land. The Mayan chiefs and nobles vied with each other to marry their daughters to him. In the end, he found a very beautiful daughter of a chief, and was thus integrated into the Mayan aristocratic class.

Then Liu Yun said: "The Mayan nobles are relatively friendly to Han people like us. They regard us as descendants of gods. However, the local country is extremely barbaric and still retains the ancient custom of human sacrifice. Whenever they conquer a city, they will definitely slaughter the young and strong people in the city, dig out their hearts and offer them as sacrifices to the gods. Then they will destroy all the facilities in the city."

Xu Aimin was puzzled and said, "Killing all the young and strong can explain their low level of civilization and the lack of so much labor, but why do they even destroy the captured cities? This is unreasonable. Wouldn't it be better for us to occupy the city? If we can't gain wealth, then why fight?"

The Han Dynasty occupied a large amount of land in Southeast Asia and was puzzled by the headhunting practice of local indigenous people. Many scholars from various schools of thought studied this practice, and their conclusions were not much different from those of later generations. The islands in Southeast Asia had a limited population capacity, and the local indigenous people had no ships and could not migrate the population, so they could only use headhunting to control the population.

Liu Yun smiled bitterly and said, "I asked my father-in-law, and he said that we can't rule those cities if we keep them. If we don't destroy the enemy cities, the enemy may occupy them, and finally leave enemies for our country. So after they defeat a strong enemy, they not only kill all the young and strong people in the area, but also destroy the cities." Chief Secretary Chen Mai was surprised and said, "How can they not rule them? How big is this Mayan country? Could the entire New World be their territory?"

Liu Yun said: "Not big, only the size of a Han county. I have seen them fight a war. There were no large animals in the area, not even wheelbarrows or flatbed carts. Food and fodder could only be carried on shoulders. They had no carts and could only rely on their abilities. They could not maintain their rule in places that were too far away, so the current situation occurred."

Xu Aimin frowned and said, "Now that our Han people are opening up the new world, there will be a shortage of young and strong labor for a long time. If they continue to use such barbaric habits for sacrifice, it will be detrimental to our Han people's opening up of the new world."

A low level of civilization means a small population, and they have to kill each other. It is even more difficult for the Han people to open up the new world. Judging from the situation in Nanyang, there will not be many people willing to come to the new world. The governor wants to solve the problem of insufficient labor, and the only way is to educate the local indigenous people and make them become Han people. In addition, the education he received over the years made him dissatisfied with Maya's indiscriminate killing.

After thinking for a while, he said, "It just so happens that Prince Guyu has followed us back to the New World. We will send him to persuade the Mayan king to change this bad habit."

Chen Mai stopped her and said, "It's a bad habit that has been passed down for hundreds of years in the Mayan country. It can even be said that this continent has inherited this bad habit for thousands of years. How can we stop it with just a few words? But the world is bustling with people coming for profit, and the world is bustling with people leaving for profit. The Mayan country can massacre prisoners of war because the prisoners of war are useless to them. If the Mayan country buys prisoners of war, the situation will be different. As long as there is profit, the nobles of the Mayan country will naturally not want to massacre prisoners of war. And these prisoners of war can also become the first batch of people of my great Han beggars. With such a life-saving grace, there is no need to worry about their loyalty."

"To be honest, even though the city has been built for three years, I really can't see any signs of Han civilization here. The work of educating the New World is still a long way to go!" This was a bit like torturing Liu Yun.

They just saw Liu Yun's wife. Liu Yun's carefully selected wife was not bad looking, but her dress was really shocking. She wore a feather tassel on her head and a revealing linen dress, without any Han Chinese women's dress. Mine was considered good, at least it wasn't painted with all kinds of weird pigments.

Other ordinary people in the starting city covered their bodies with a piece of linen, revealing large areas of bronze skin. Some women wore grass skirts on their lower bodies, and did not care at all about exposing their breasts.

They were wearing all kinds of colorful feather decorations, their ears, noses, and mouths were mostly pierced and stuffed with feathers, bone tools and other decorations, and their bodies were covered with colorful paints, looking like a group of demons dancing wildly. The most important thing was that these natives were curiously staring at the actions of the Han soldiers and civilians. There was a kind of thick, clear and stupid look in their eyes. Chen Mai couldn't believe that this was the city of the Han Dynasty.

Liu Yun explained: "The changes that a person can make are extremely limited. They can only adapt to local customs."

Well, actually, he didn't want to change. He just wanted the Han team to come back and take him away from this wild land. In the past three years, he had done very little management of the Starting City, and his wife managed the city most of the time.

Xu Aimin said: "There is a long way to go to educate the New World. Let's start from this starting city. Liu Canjun, you know Mayan, so you will teach the teacher to learn Mayan."

"promise!"

In the next few months, Xu Aimin first sent soldiers to escort Prince Guyu back to the country, and presented them with the Han Maya royal seal specially made for them by the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, which was regarded as recognition of their status as a vassal state of the Han Dynasty. At the same time, he also sent envoys to talk about the population trade.

Prince Guyu's return to the capital of Maya caused a sensation in the whole city, especially the thousands of pieces of cloth sent by Xu Fan, including beautiful silk and delicate cotton, which were things that Maya did not have. The weapons, armor, jewelry and carriages made the King of Maya drool. For this small slave country, the gift from the Emperor of the Han Dynasty was truly a huge fortune.

Especially the armor and swords given by Xu Fan, which were magical weapons for the Maya living in the Stone Age.

When the Mayan king heard that the son of the Han emperor needed to buy some slaves to build a city, the locals plundered their own capital and sent an envoy back to the starting city with more than 3000 slaves. He told the envoy that there were not enough people and he could prepare more, because his Mayan country had nothing in abundance but a lot of people.

The Mayan king was really confident. Relying on special products such as potatoes and corn, even in the slave era, the grain production capacity of the Mayan country was close to that of the Han Dynasty in the feudal era. It only occupied a small area in Zhongyinzhou, but the population was several million. It can be said that the population of the Spring and Autumn Period when Confucius lived was not necessarily as large as that of the current Mayan city-states.

The envoy immediately agreed with the Mayan king on a trade of one slave for one piece of linen. As long as they had the manpower ready and went to the starting city to notify them, they would come with the cloth to trade.

Xu Aimin began to expand the starting city. The small city of a few thousand people could not meet the needs of the Yinzhou Governor's Office at all. He planned to expand the city to accommodate 5 people.

This required a large number of laborers to build brick kilns, dig earth, cast city walls, etc. Fortunately, Xu Aimin brought sufficient supplies, including various cloths, grains, various tools, sugar, tea and other luxury goods.

On the one hand, he used these luxury goods to purchase slaves from major Mayan city-states and tribes to solve the problem of labor shortage, and directly purchased more than 1 slaves.

At the same time, a huge grass market was set up in the starting city, and all the Han Dynasty's salt, iron, tea, nine kinds of cloth, sugar and other goods were put on the market.

It was very simple for these savages to get these goods, they just exchanged their own labor. There was no currency in the New World, so Chen Aimin simply used food stamps as currency. A savage could exchange 5 kilograms of food for one day's work, and a month's work could be exchanged for a piece of linen, 10 kilograms of salt, two kilograms of sugar, and various steel tools, farm tools and other goods of the Han people.

For the Mayan natives who were still in the slavery period, the grass market in the starting city was like the kingdom of God. They could find anything they wanted there, even things that were unimaginable in this place. The civilization was three levels lower. It could be said that these earth beasts suffered a thorough dimensionality reduction attack and instantly bowed down to these Han people who were like gods.

So the Mayan leaders around them woke up to find that all their troops had run away.

When they ran to the starting city to look for them, they would find that their tribesmen had changed completely. The decorations that used to represent various kinds of courage had been cleared away, and all kinds of colored clay had been washed clean. They were dressed in Han Chinese clothes, and then they built cities under the command of the Han people, or reclaimed land under the command of the Han people.

Faced with this situation, the tribal leaders were naturally dissatisfied. Even if you Han people are gods, you cannot abduct all my tribesmen. Although the Maya did not have this word, they thought so in their hearts.

At this time Chen Mai came out. On the one hand, he apologized to these leaders, saying that they did not know that these people had escaped. On the other hand, he took out silk, cloth, tea and other luxuries of the Han Dynasty and gave them to these tribal leaders. At the same time, he arranged brick and stone houses to settle them in, and told them that there would be Han scholars to teach them Chinese. When they learned to speak Chinese, they could go to the Han Dynasty, which was like a kingdom of God, and live a life like gods.

Chen Mai’s idea was very simple. The tribesmen could stay as labor, and the leaders could go to the Han Dynasty to enjoy life. They should not be hindered from developing the New World here.

When these tribal leaders saw the spacious and bright brick and stone houses and thought of the magical weapons that the Mayan King had received as gifts, they began to imagine their lives in the Han Dynasty and started to learn Chinese with Liu Yun.

(End of this chapter)